I saw this same snake charmer guy when in Singapore in February – and here was again with his little flute and the albino python in the basket, trying to catch tourists to pay him for the chande of holding the snake on their shoulders and taking some pictures. Only this time, he was on the other side of town. Entrepreneuship of a different kind.

I wanted to tell him that I had met him before, and that my previous visiting students had held his snake, but unfortunately we didn’t share the same language, so our brief meeting was without words. It’s always strange to realize that English is not necessarily understood and spoken by everybody in the world.